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Kalamotó (KLT)
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Basic information
Sample name: Kalamotó (KLT)

Reference: E. Tsoukala and K. Chatzopoulou. 2005. A new early Pleistocene (latest Villafranchian) site with mammals in Kalamotó (Mygdonia Basin, Macedonia, Greece) - preliminary report. Mitteilungender Kommission für Quartårforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 14:213-233 [ER 3991]
Geography
Country: Greece


Coordinate: 40.54° N, 23.38° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Formation: Platanochori

Time interval: Early Pleistocene

Zone: MN20

Max Ma: 1.06

Min Ma: 0.9

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "Kalamotó village is... 5 km far from Zagliveri - the capital center of the Kalindia Prefecture" and the site is "about 2 Km SW" of Kalamotó "very close to the well-known archaeological site" of Toumbes "in Vasmouras Rema"
there are "three local sites" lettered A, B, and C
coordinate estimated from Fig. 1
said to be "latest Villafranchian" and MN20 based on biochronology
MN20 is approximately equivalent to the Jaramillo subchron within the Matuyama chron according to Palombo (2010, Quaternary International), i.e., about 1.06 to 0.90 Ma

Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: "reddish-brown-yellowish terrestrial deposits" that are presumably fluvial and shown as "sandstones" in fig. 4
there is no "form of early human modification" at all

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 132 specimens

Years: 2000 - 2004

Sampling comments: "fossils were found and collected by the villager Giannis Gakis" in 2000 but there were later "five substantial excavating sessions" spanning 2001 - 2004 at either KAL or KLT or both that were carried out under the direction of Tsoukala
most material was collected in "the stream mainly after raining"

Metadata
Sample number: 4407

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-12-13 20:51:27

Modified: 2023-12-13 10:11:14

Abundance distribution
11 species
3 singletons
total count 132
extrapolated richness: 18.4
Fisher's α: 2.853
geometric series k: 0.6598
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7045
Shannon's H: 1.6235
Good's u: 0.9774
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Current reference: Lozada et al. 2000 (ER 999)